HISTORY
Carib Indian Chief Tegreman
Carib Indian Chief Tegreman
Carib Indian Chief Tegreman
Sir Thomas Warner landed at Old Road Bay on January 28th, 1623 with fifteen other settlers. He was met by the Carib Chief, King Tegreman. The Indians had their village and ritual grounds in on what is now Wingfield Manor Estate. The settlers were at first on good terms with the island's Carib inhabitants, though such friendship lasted on
Sir Thomas Warner landed at Old Road Bay on January 28th, 1623 with fifteen other settlers. He was met by the Carib Chief, King Tegreman. The Indians had their village and ritual grounds in on what is now Wingfield Manor Estate. The settlers were at first on good terms with the island's Carib inhabitants, though such friendship lasted only a very few years. Rather than cultivating sugar, it was tobacco that had drawn Warner to the island, and it was the island's tobacco crop that first supported the settlement, which was harvested on the estate and where tobacco plants still exist today.
The Jefferson Family
Carib Indian Chief Tegreman
Carib Indian Chief Tegreman
The first British Land grant in the Caribbean was on Wingfield Manor Estate to Samuel Jeafferson, the great -great-great-great grandfather of U.S. Third President Thomas Jefferson.
Estate History
Carib Indian Chief Tegreman
Estate History
Wingfield Manor Estate was the first Brittish Settlement land grant in the Caribbean, First settlement in Saint Kitts, and was occupied prior to 1623 by Carib Chief King Tegreman. The property was also the first rum distillery in the Caribbean. It is now owned by the Walwyn and Godwin Family of Old Road.